Cambodia News: Mam Somaly

The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war: “The suffering, ...

Together1Heart president AnnaLynne McCord donned a belly-baring gown to her human-trafficking organization's inaugural gala, which took place at Tao ...

Sarandon was the guest of honor at the annual soiree. Together1Heart recognized The Feud star's 'fierce support' in the fight to end human trafficking.

I would love to share my thoughts about MANASA, which is a rehabilitation and training center in Pamboor, Udupi, India.

On television, the cast of The Walking Dead may appear tough, but not every member is as intimidating as they look.

I have been shocked to see an increase in campaigns promoting America's understanding of everything about sex, and in particular sex work and sex trafficking.

Young women from disadvantaged backgrounds are leaving home for the first time to live in shared dormitories — and demand a better quality of life.

ZOE Patterson was living in a children's home after a horrific childhood where her mother abused her constantly. She couldn't have imagined it was going to get ...

The global health and international aid sectors perform critical work. But how do we ensure that such efforts are carried out with integrity? Oxfam's ex-country ...

By the age of 24, Rosie had set up a not-for-profit child welfare organisation called foundations.(au) and a home for at-risk Ugandan children, known as ...

Woman's Day Editor in Chief Susan Spencer and Publisher and CRO Kassie Means hosted the 15th annual Woman's Day Red Dress Awards at Jazz at Lincoln ...

Convicted of child sex abuse, seven school employees continue to languish in an Indonesian prison for a crime that many believe they did not commit.

THE girl who made legal history and national headlines 14 years ago after the courts allowed her to legally divorce her family for putting her into sex slavery, has ...

Have you ever questioned the motivation behind your life's work? Stephanie Lorenzo did, and a year later she was in Cambodia, at the beginning of a ...

SART the little five-year-old Cambodian girl cooed at me, gently touching the tattoo on my left forearm.

With the closure of the The Cambodia Daily, Cambodia is losing its only true independent paper of record.

Douglas Gillison, executive editor from 2009-11, writes a eulogy for the outspoken paper that was a thorn in the Cambodian regime's side.

I Am Jane Doe, a harrowing look at the sex trafficking industry, opens Documentary Week at the Martha's Vineyard Film Center. The movie arrives on the ...

Two documentary filmmakers uncover a massive hoax while shooting a documentary about sex-trafficked girls.

Together1heart president AnnaLynne McCord on the breakdown and rebranding of the Somaly Mam Foundation.

In 2014, Newsweek published a devastating cover story alleging that the high-profile Cambodian anti-trafficking activist had created a web of lies to fund her ...

Heroes are complicated and victims aren't always who we think they are. As journalists, we are storytellers lured by the power of a great narrative. But we are ...

For the first time, AnnaLynne McCord revealed she was sexually assaulted by a friend of hers when she was a teenager.

Longtime “Today” show viewers are being treated to a familiar sight this week as Katie Couric returns to the co-anchor chair for the first time in more than a ...

Two of Matt Lauer's former “Today” show co-hosts -- Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira -- are returning to the show for a week each in January.

Sex Slave Story Revealed to Be Fabricated.” This headline could have run in a recent Washington Post, atop any number of stories breaking down the ...

For six seasons, the actress Shay Mitchell has been best known to viewers as Emily on Pretty Little Liars, bringing to life one of TV's most visible young LGBT ...

Sex and labor trafficking are problems. But the state is left to create laws with no reliable data on the scope of problem in Michigan, or even a common ...

Most sex workers in Cambodia, Hoefinger says, are not trapped by brothel overlords. They're instead trapped in a shattered economy where alternative options ...

Justice Louis Brandeis famously claimed that sunlight is the best disinfectant. In recent years, “transparency” has become a buzz word, closely synonymous with ...

A year after Somaly Mam was forced to quit her own foundation, concerns remain as she attempts to rise phoenix-like from the ashes On May 28 last year, the ...

The news last year that Somaly Mam was starting a new charity dedicated to fighting human trafficking and sex slavery raises the question of how a damaged ...

A fallen anti-human trafficking activist fights to restore her reputation by setting up a new non-governmental organisation. How far will she go?

Sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam, who resigned from her now-shuttered foundation last year following a damaging Newsweek article and investigation, has ...

When Somaly Mam was accused last year of fraud and dishonesty about her past, the repercussions were felt not just by the foundation that bore her name but ...

101 East talks to Cambodia's fallen anti-sex trafficking icon as she fights to restore her reputation and save her NGO.

Will Somaly Mam's new attempt to set up an anti-trafficking organization be enough to put the controversies of the past year behind? This is the conundrum that ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Disgraced Cambodian anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam, who was forced to resign from her own foundation ...

Bangkok: A foundation supporting anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam has closed but the disgraced Cambodian woman feted at charity events in Australia is ...

The Somaly Mam Foundation, which worked against human trafficking and sexual exploitation, has closed five months after its founder resigned amid ...

Five months after its eponymous founder and staunch advocate's resignation over highly publicized fraud allegations, the U.S.-based Somaly Mam Foundation ...

The Somaly Mam Foundation, an anti-human trafficking organization that was thrust into the spotlight earlier this year after its namesake founder was accused of ...

Celebrities no longer just raise money and awareness. They offer advice about how to approach and 'solve' the human trafficking problem. The United Nations ...

The anti-sex-trafficking activist who fell from grace won't be allowed to operate a new NGO in Cambodia, a government spokesman says.

This means war! In the annals of pitched battles between rival media outlets, a brass-knuckled skirmish pitting Newsweek against Marie Claire seems especially ...

Anti-trafficking activist Somaly Mam has spoken out to defend herself for the first time following a bombshell Newsweek story which portrayed her as a fraud, ...

Readers might think nonfiction books are the most reliable media sources there are. But accuracy scandals haven't reformed an industry that faces no big ...

In May, a piece broke from Newsweek, launching a richly reported accusation against an activist superstar in the development field of human trafficking, Somaly ...

The problem is much larger than Somaly Mam or these orphanages. Worldwide there are "victim scripts" that individuals must conform to and perform in orde...

The fall from grace of activist Somaly Mam, the face of Cambodia's anti-sex trafficking movement, is potentially a setback for the campaign to protect the ...

In April of 2010, New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof was preparing to head out on a reporting expedition to Sudan when he stopped in at the ...

Activists say the story of Somaly Mam is part of a larger tale of deception meant to attract foreign money into impoverished Cambodia.

Another high-profile sex trafficking yarn is coming unraveled.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is now expressing doubt about the backstory of Somaly Mam, an anti-human trafficking advocate whom he's written...

Phnom Penh, Cambodia - In early 2011, Srey Mao, 28, and two friends were "rescued" and taken to a shelter run by Afesip, a Cambodian organisation that ...

Somaly Mam described having been trafficked into a brothel as a young girl in Cambodia, then escaping and helping others—and she came to run a couple of ...

“There are various other tricks of the trade. I've learned when to be more suspicious of people…. I think there's a tendency to believe victims, for example.

Why exactly did the telegenic Cambodian campaigner use fake trafficking victims to raise philanthropic cash from Westerners? And when will Nicholas Kristof ...

When Maya Angelou died last week, many of the remembrances of the poet included variants on one of Angelou's oft-repeated maxims: “The first time someone ...

Somaly Mam FoundationLast week, Somaly Mam resigned from the foundation she co-founded seven years ago. Mam, dubbed "the James Frey of anti–sex ...

She was starved in New York with her baby and forced to have sex with as many as three dozen men a day. Why a Mexican teen is still terrified, even as her ...

Somaly Mam, an international crusader who said she survived sex slavery in Cambodia, resigns after Newsweek reports her story is untrue.

Mam resigned following allegations in Newsweek that she fabricated key parts of her personal story of abuse.

HONG KONG — A well-known Cambodian crusader against sex trafficking who attracted celebrity support to her cause has resigned from the foundation she ...

Somaly Mam saved countless girls in Cambodia. Does it matter if key parts of her story aren't true?

In 2013, like hundreds of thousands of other migrant workers, Erwiana Sulistyaningsih moved to another country (Hong Kong) in hopes of a better tomorrow.

OmLuxe founders Pamela Jones and Jennifer Grace at The Standard Spa, Miami Beach. Manifesting amid an energy vortex in Sedona, performing a fullmoon ...

Editor's Note: Somaly Mam is a global leader who has pioneered the movement against modern slavery for nearly two decades. She has been recognized as a ...

Raped at 12, forced to marry at 15 and then sold into prostitution, Somaly Mam has risen from Cambodia's brothels to be the glamorous, celebrity face of the ...

Cambodia's celebrity anti-trafficking activist and former victim Somaly Mam's stories blown out of the water by local journo. Somaly Mam, co-founder and ...

Kat Graham & Matthew Morrison Honor Humanitarian Somaly Mam Kat Graham rocks a a bold suit while attending the Songs of Hope Gala at the Warwick on ...

In June 1998, Somaly Mam stood on the stage of Spain's Campoamor Theater shoulder to shoulder with six of the world's most celebrated women as she ...

Estée Lauder Companies teams up with trafficking survivor-turned-activist to provide new Siem Reap-based social enterprise with training, supplies and support.

She was joined by Dallas hunk Josh Henderson, Graceland star Serinda Swan, and Sharknado actress Cassie Scerbo.

From learning from survivors to improving data collection, our panel of experts offers advice on ending all forms of slavery.

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Hairdresser Michael Angelo normally spends hectic days at his salon in NYC, but recently he was in Cambodia, training young women who are survivors of th...

New York City-based salon owner Michael Angelo has long been privy to the beauty industry's inescapable image-driven, superficial depths. It's why he has set ...

Brooks Brothers creates a capsule collection for “The Great Gatsby” premiere; Holst + Lee joins Plum Alley, a new luxury e-commerce platform and other ...

On January 11, 2013, Sharnoff's Global Views concluded an interview with Amy Merrill, director of marketing and development at the Somaly Mam Foundation.

SHE remembers a home that looked fancy on the outside but ominous on the inside, a dark maze of bare chambers. She remembers the parade of men, day by ...

For years now, the scarred face of Long Pros has symbolized the depredation of sex slavery in Cambodia. Her story of immense pain and brutality in a Phnom ...

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Last November, Meg Ryan tweeted a picture of a former sex slave she met while on location in Cambodia with journalist Nicholas Kristof to film the Independent ...

I am in a van with Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon and her daughter Eva Amurri, bouncing along a dirt road in the Cambodian countryside, and are ...

Somaly Mam, the founder of Cambodian shelters for former sex slaves, and Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon, a formidable fund-raiser for the cause, are ...

A number of celebrities are promoting alternative Mother's Day gifts to benefit good causes.

Learning about the difficult topics of human trafficking and sexual servitude by reading the work of Nicholas D. Kristof, a Times columnist, in a lesson developed ...

When 6-year-olds are sold to be tortured and raped, it's time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement to end human trafficking.

The global movement against human trafficking is making progress. In Cambodia, I followed one of my heroes, Somaly Mam, in a raid on a brothel with ...

Yesterday, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof live-tweeted a brothel raid in Cambodia. Kristof's novel approaches to international women-rights ...

On Thursday, October 20, Look To The Stars' Allison DiLiberto and Scott Cable attended the Somaly Mam Foundation's annual gala at Manhattan's Espace (635 ...

It was a typical fall evening in New York: gusting winds, rush hour traffic and a charity gala. Political activists, ambassadors, State Department grandees and ...

Pretty Little Liars actress Shay Mitchell recently joined the fight against sex trafficking. She visited Cambodia in February with the Somaly Mam Foundation to ...

In a special episode of “America's Most Wanted” airing on FOX this Saturday, host John Walsh will take viewers to the front lines of the international battle ...

Cambodian Parliament Member Mu Sochua received a standing ovation from the sold-out, standing room-only crowd at the red carpet world premier of ...

Sold into sexual slavery early in her life, today Somaly Mam fights human trafficking and protects young girls in Cambodia against sexual abuse.

Somaly Mam and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime were born around the same time — when the U.S. began secretly carpet bombing her country. The bombed ...

Anyone who thinks it is hyperbole to describe sex trafficking as slavery should look at the maimed face of a teenage girl, Long Pross.

As long as 14-year-old girls are being jolted with electric shocks to make them smile before sex tourists in Cambodia, the abolitionist cause for slavery has not ...